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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Tom Brady is your daddy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Round the NFL Podcast. UM,

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansas. I got some heroes from virtual parts unknown.

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Speaker 1: Why I know where they are? Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood somewhere in West Hollywood. The boys somewhere in

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Speaker 1: West l A. We're all together via the internet. Though,

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Speaker 1: what's up, guys? Nailed it? Yeah, you're at the office

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Speaker 1: today though, you know there's still some people going in

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Speaker 1: taping the power rankings right YEP. I was there the

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Speaker 1: NFL network headquarters and there's more maintenance people there right

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Speaker 1: now than UM employees, it seems. So there's kind of

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Speaker 1: like an eerie It's like those zombie movies when they're

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Speaker 1: in a mall and you hear some top forty radio

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Speaker 1: hit playing. It's just early silent otherwise. That's what it's

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Speaker 1: like at the office right now. UM. Hopefully this is

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Speaker 1: a temporary set up where we're doing these shows remotely

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Speaker 1: UM from the podcast, but that kind of came down

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Speaker 1: from Mount Olympus, so that's where we are right now. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We're just happy to be healthy because it seems like

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Speaker 1: half the NFL right now has COVID. I have thought

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Speaker 1: about UM airlifting into the office briefly, just to walk

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Speaker 1: in and get those free slices of pizza. I mean

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Speaker 1: I thought about that probably twelve or twelve to thirteen

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Speaker 1: times a day. No one you no either, It's either Friday, Greg,

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Speaker 1: You're at Your enthusiasm is contagious. We we we we

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Speaker 1: get it. I I am. I think you probably think

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Speaker 1: that I like being home. I don't like this at all. UM.

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Speaker 1: This wave of it is um ponderous at best. It's yeah,

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Speaker 1: speaking of contagious. UH, the um O macron variant of

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen virus. I don't even know what is

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Speaker 1: what anymore, but anyway, it's it's highly contagious. It's rippen

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Speaker 1: through the league and UM. Just on Tuesday, we learned

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Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz, who is unvaccinated, was moved to the

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Speaker 1: reserve COVID list. Now there are a couple of wrinkles

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Speaker 1: to this one. As of taping, we don't know if

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Speaker 1: Wentz has COVID nineteen or is a close contact. That's

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Speaker 1: very important because the nfl UH and the nfl p

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Speaker 1: A are in the process as we speak, of reducing

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Speaker 1: the quarantine time from ten to five days, which means

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Speaker 1: and covering all players, not just vaccinated or vaccinated players.

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Speaker 1: So even an unvaccinated player like Wentz could play Sunday

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Speaker 1: if he's deemed close contact and not actually having the disease. However,

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Speaker 1: it's just the latest for the NFL in an unending

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Speaker 1: strength trend here where I believe nineties players tested positive

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Speaker 1: on Monday alone, which was a record. Uh. It has

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Speaker 1: turned the league upside down. And the Colts as an example,

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Speaker 1: a team that was surging to me, seemed like a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender and still are whether once misses a

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Speaker 1: game or not. But it just shows you how fragile

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Speaker 1: everything has become and how fluid. Like I get people

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Speaker 1: are like upset that the rules keep changing. It's like

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Speaker 1: what did you expect? Like like it's kind of like

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Speaker 1: the teams that are that are saying after the facts, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know we were down eighteen players, but that's no

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Speaker 1: excuse you gotta well, yeah, you've gotta go win a ball. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it is an excuse. There there's an unprecedented global

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Speaker 1: pandemic and you're missing the third of your roster. All

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Speaker 1: of this is unprecedented and I give some of that

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Speaker 1: excuse latitude to how things have changed, because it's not

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Speaker 1: like I expect the NFL to have some greater beat

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Speaker 1: on this than the larger world. This goes back to

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Speaker 1: the conversation we had like March and April in some ways,

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Speaker 1: in terms of the testing and the way that the

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Speaker 1: on the fly. So they're just it's like they're trying

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Speaker 1: to get everything done possible. But I also don't know,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't I'm not like that angry at everything,

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Speaker 1: very clear and has been all along. Go do it

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Speaker 1: for the people around you. But the unvaccinated players are

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Speaker 1: tangibly costing their teams immense opportunities and huge moments. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and he's not the you know, the lynch pin to

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just, I just I think that the

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams unvaccinated, Joey Bosa unvaccinated, aided. That creates a

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Speaker 1: bigger issue. Now. Of course, people that are vaccinated and

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Speaker 1: just need to as football fans, as people covering the sport.

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Speaker 1: The teams themselves just have to adapt. And it's like

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Speaker 1: And it's this is such a different time now than

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Speaker 1: Because it's not necessarily going away. It's certainly not going

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Speaker 1: I think of just like showing what the public, what's

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Speaker 1: of like what are you gonna do about it? Greg?

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Speaker 1: There is one thing, one positive for you that came

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Speaker 1: out of this. Okay, our friend, our good buddy, Zach

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Speaker 1: Kiefer who wrote that beautiful piece on Chris Westling for

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Speaker 1: with this COVID stuff, because it's like, yeah, in theory,

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Speaker 1: I get it, like these the underlying numbers of the

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Speaker 1: Saints are pretty great. But it's like that that wasn't

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Speaker 1: the Saints. You gotta just gotta just suggest that people

431
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Speaker 1: coming after me on Twitter like, look at the mirror.

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Speaker 1: Look listen, dude, I'm not looking to win Medal of

433
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Speaker 1: the Valor's here. I'm just I'm looking to win games.

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Speaker 1: And let let me ask you a question. Let's say

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Speaker 1: I locked them up and you on an island game

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Speaker 1: in this situation, would you be as charitable towards me?

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Speaker 1: I would have been like, I'm joining you on that

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Speaker 1: because this is easy money. Well, let's say you say,

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Speaker 1: let's say that you went down a different avenue and

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Speaker 1: then I like won this lock. Would would there be

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Speaker 1: any would there not be a word or two of like, well, Mark,

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00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: that was very questionable. But if that's what you needed

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Speaker 1: to make a little joke, my my official comment is

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Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. Mark, Well that is that is,

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Speaker 1: of course that's what you're gonna say. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think everyone listening understands how that would have been handled.

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Speaker 1: Mark of my one of my joys. Things that I

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Speaker 1: like about this podcast, and there's so many things. That's

449
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: been one of the great things that I've ever had

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Speaker 1: in my life is riling up the quiet storm. It's

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Speaker 1: sometimes it gives me a little, you know, little juice. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm too down now because of a disastrous two weeks

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Speaker 1: where I went against the cults. Um, I have learned

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Speaker 1: major lessons. I'm not touching that team again. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: the team that's one nine of ten did not did

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Speaker 1: not pay off. What about Sam Elinger though maybe you

457
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Speaker 1: want to lock up against him again, but the Raiders

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Speaker 1: they kind of stand at it. We'll get to all

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Speaker 1: that on Thursday. Let's take a break, and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna try to solve some mysteries. This program is about

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Speaker 1: unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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Speaker 1: officials have participated in recreating the What you were about

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Speaker 1: to see is not a news broadcast. Yes, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the broadcast and or the podcast, I should say,

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Speaker 1: And it is time. The NFL regular season, a strange

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Speaker 1: a season as you can never recall, has two weeks

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Speaker 1: remaining in the regular season. In mark the biggest season.

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Speaker 1: Football is family. Football is now your family. They can

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Speaker 1: they can throw any slogan they want at what we're

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Speaker 1: witnessing off though, five and five days and no football

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Speaker 1: after eight primetime games and ten days we have five

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Speaker 1: days of no football. Mark, well eight out of ten

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Speaker 1: days was a bit heavy. I mean it was a

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Speaker 1: little bit. It's like I would like to eat those

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Speaker 1: pizza slices I mentioned. I wouldn't want it to be

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Speaker 1: the only thing I eat NonStop, every meal, all day long.

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Speaker 1: I totally get it. I get it. The commissary, it's

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Speaker 1: all on the arm. As Keith Anders would say, we're

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Speaker 1: not paying for it. You know, it's the only thing

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Speaker 1: better than pizza, free pizza. Yeah, oh yeah. Anyway, it's

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Speaker 1: been a mysterious, spooky NFL season, and now we're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to well, what we're gonna do here is kind of,

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Speaker 1: uh open up, open the kimono of mystery here and

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Speaker 1: lay out some things that are completely impossible to decipher

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Speaker 1: to the average person, um perhaps to us, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll try to use logic to to crack the mystery. Now,

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Speaker 1: as you know, Mark is a child of the eighties. Um,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you get that update and when you get the update,

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Speaker 1: and then something update, and then they tell you this

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Speaker 1: man did see an alien. Actually turns out he was

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Speaker 1: clinically insane and they put him in an asylum. Like

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Speaker 1: it's good to get the update. We can't hit you

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Speaker 1: with an update right now. But here's the good thing

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Speaker 1: about football. All these unsolved mysteries will get the update

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Speaker 1: by February that we could promise you, or a little after.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it. Mark, you are a conspiracy theorist.

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Speaker 1: This program is right up your alley, the segments up

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Speaker 1: your alley. So get us going with the first unsob mystery.

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Speaker 1: All right, I will title this project poison Beak. And

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Speaker 1: here's what I'm unfurling to you. Have the Cardinals been

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Speaker 1: subject to a hush hush government op aimed at gathering

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Speaker 1: data on what happens when an entire football team and

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Speaker 1: its coaching staff, unbeknownst to them, ingest pure strained psilocybin

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Speaker 1: via the team cafeteria soft serve ice cream machine. One

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Speaker 1: big issue is that Kyler Murray is obsessed with that

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Speaker 1: vanilla chocolate strawberry neo politan swirl option and has spent

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Speaker 1: the past twenty one days in a trenchant haze. This

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Speaker 1: is another way of asking, are these birds cooked? Have

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Speaker 1: they migrated into another world? Can Kyler win big games

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Speaker 1: under the lights? Is Cliff Gangsberry built for the long haul?

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Speaker 1: Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You know everybody dre

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Speaker 1: by the way, psilocybin reference by Mark Sel Government did

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Speaker 1: LSD experiments for years and years. Looking right, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to drink some psilocybin, you know, a little New Year's

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Speaker 1: Eve or something New Orleans. So the unsolved mystery is

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Speaker 1: are the Cardinals cooked? Have they peaked? It's a It's

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Speaker 1: a great one because either way I look at the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals right now is yes, they fit every profile as

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Speaker 1: one of those teams they started seven and oh their

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Speaker 1: five and eight. Since they've lost their best playmaker on

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Speaker 1: the outside, they seem to have lost that confidence and

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Speaker 1: that mojo that made them so special to start the year. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they could be kind of heading towards that ten and

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Speaker 1: seven finish and then a wipe out in the first

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Speaker 1: round and then a ton of questions. However, Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: is special. So that's to me like boring down a

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Speaker 1: little more. The unsaved mystery is how special is Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: I the next few weeks are critical test because the

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Speaker 1: true franchise star can put a team on its back

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Speaker 1: and take them out of a valley and get him

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Speaker 1: back to the peak. If he doesn't a year after

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Speaker 1: they faded uh In and I understand who was injured

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Speaker 1: that year, I think questions will start to build, not

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Speaker 1: just around Cliff Kingsbury, but Kyler Murray as well. I'm

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Speaker 1: not worried about Kyler, you know, I am a little

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Speaker 1: worried about this coaching staff and Cliff Kingsbury. Certainly they'll

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Speaker 1: look better when they get ron Dale Moore James Conner back.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they will for for this Dallas game this week.

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Speaker 1: But the tweet going around on Tuesday that really caught

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Speaker 1: my eye about Cliff Kingsbury's record in the first seven

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Speaker 1: games of his season compared to after that is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: This this goes back to Texas Tech. He's forty two

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Speaker 1: and twenty in the first seven games in sixteen and

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Speaker 1: forty three after that. If you just want to do

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, they're fifteen five and one in the first

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Speaker 1: seven games in eight and eight, eight and eighteen after that.

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Speaker 1: So maybe maybe it's just weird numbers sticking against the wall.

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Speaker 1: But whatever the idea that um is around that the

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Speaker 1: first couple of months of the season are one thing,

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Speaker 1: and then teams start adjusting to what you've done and

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Speaker 1: it's on you to adjust to that. It's like they're

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Speaker 1: not doing any adjusting. They're playing their worst when it

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Speaker 1: matters the most. There are There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: examples of teams, including the Super Bowl Cardinals, including Patriots,

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Speaker 1: including the Ravens when they won the Super Bowl. Who's

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Speaker 1: stunk in December and turned it back on. This team

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Speaker 1: has the juice and the players to be that sort

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Speaker 1: of team. I don't know if they have the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff though. Most most of those numbers that you mentioned

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Speaker 1: for Arizona's fast start, I mean obviously come this year

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Speaker 1: because they were five and ten and one under his

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Speaker 1: first season. Now last year, I would attribute that to

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Speaker 1: the to the to the Kyler Murray injury. I didn't

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Speaker 1: all seven. They were worse in their last after the

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Speaker 1: first seven. Like that's been consistent every single season. There

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Speaker 1: is something crazy about that. It's I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: part of it is his system, like people were still

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Speaker 1: learning to some degree, but they were fast starters. They

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Speaker 1: I think I'm with Dan. I just feel like a

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Speaker 1: classic team that peaked. I mean, they looked unstoppable a

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Speaker 1: month ago. If they were to get wiped out by Dallas,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the end of this season is about as

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Speaker 1: ugly as one could author. All right, let us move

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Speaker 1: on up next the question that I know you've thought about,

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Speaker 1: Mark Ceciler Baker Mayfield playing his final games for the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Is he playing for his future with back

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Speaker 1: to back games against the Pittsburgh Steelers Cincinnati Bengals? And

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Speaker 1: how crazy is it that we're even having this conversation

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Speaker 1: considering where things were in September. I will cite a

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Speaker 1: report from the Acron Beacon Journal Marla ridden Or, who

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Speaker 1: said the Browns are likely to bring in competition for

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield in two She also wrote in the article

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Speaker 1: that the four interception performance against the Packers on Christmas

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Speaker 1: provided Brown's bass brass with quote even more minuses on

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Speaker 1: their ledgers when deciding whether to offer Mayfield an extension

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Speaker 1: with his contract expiring after Mark, do you believe that

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Speaker 1: these next two weeks mean everything for your quarterback? I

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Speaker 1: don't know if he can really dig himself out of

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Speaker 1: the hole, unless he were to have two spectacular showings.

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Speaker 1: They made the playoffs and they got back to where

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Speaker 1: they were a year ago, and maybe one a playoff game,

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Speaker 1: and then you can look back at all this and say,

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Speaker 1: you know, the shoulder um Covid, other things around him,

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Speaker 1: you know, fell apart um. I think more likely the

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Speaker 1: last game is tough because you don't have to extend him.

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Speaker 1: I think he's here next year, and I do think

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Speaker 1: that Stefanski has a lot of faith in him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if he melts totally over the next two weeks, I

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Speaker 1: think they are a candidate because you already heard them

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Speaker 1: linked to like the Deshaun Watson situation, they're a candidate

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Speaker 1: to explore. I don't think competition for Baker Mayfield, but

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Speaker 1: a big name replacement. I don't know what competition means,

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Speaker 1: because if you have the number one draft pick and

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Speaker 1: like you're bringing in case Keenum is competition around what

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Speaker 1: you could get, and so it's like, what does that mean.

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Speaker 1: I think you would go get the Russell Wilson, you

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Speaker 1: go after someone like Deshaun Watson, or you stuck, you

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Speaker 1: stick with him for one more year and have a

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Speaker 1: real look at who he is now. I think the

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Speaker 1: problem is I think they and we kind of know

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Speaker 1: what he is right now, and it's that's the depressing part.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this is what I thought of him

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Speaker 1: at all. Even six seven weeks ago, they are already

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Speaker 1: showing with reports like that that this could be coming.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you you threw this mystery at It is

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Speaker 1: fascinating because it reminds me something that happened a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago that really caught my eye. And it

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Speaker 1: was a couple of reports in the Cleveland Papers questioning

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski's play calling and whether Baker Mayfield was put

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Speaker 1: in the best position, uh in terms of what Stefanski

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Speaker 1: was calling late game situations. Very very pro Baker piece

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Speaker 1: with some sources that Stefanski is putting him in a

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Speaker 1: bad position, intention that that he's doing a bad basically

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Speaker 1: that they're they've done a bad job play calling. I

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Speaker 1: forget which local paper, I forget which paper it was.

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Speaker 1: Didn't get a lot of buzz, but it got me thinking, like, well,

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Speaker 1: the Browns read that piece and they might have their

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Speaker 1: guesses of where that's coming from. Someone trying to protect

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Speaker 1: Baker after one of his worst games of the year,

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Speaker 1: and I started to think, like, oh, this is ugly,

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Speaker 1: Like this is there, we're already getting into like that

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Speaker 1: he said. She said stuff of like who's that fault there?

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Speaker 1: And I don't think Baker would survive that because Baker

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Speaker 1: has a little has trade value. That's a thing like

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Speaker 1: in these in these deals where Deshaun Watson and Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson or something, it's like Baker is a nice piece

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Speaker 1: to have. Doesn't mean he's going to change your franchise,

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Speaker 1: but he has trade value. That That was the point

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Speaker 1: I was about to make, which is they picked up

640
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: the final year of his rookie deal. The extension is

641
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: probably not happening at this point, so he becomes a

642
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: tradeable asset. It was very similar to the Sam Donald

643
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: situation where the and the Panthers made the decision then

644
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: to pick up his option, but uh, the same draft class.

645
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: My point being that he doesn't have a big financial commitment.

646
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 1: Maybe you take him on and he upgrades your quarterback position.

647
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: You get a look at him at a not a

648
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: very high cost case. Keenum is under contract for one

649
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: more year. He knows who he is, He's a backup.

650
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is not the type of guy. I don't

651
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: think that would be cool with Steak sticking around in

652
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: Cleveland if they went and brought in someone that became

653
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: the logical starter. So maybe a fresh break for both

654
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: sides would be in order. But I think again, to me,

655
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: I think the story has yet to be written. Even

656
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: if it seems like the writings on the wall. I

657
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: think if he balls out here and they end up

658
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: stealing the A f C. North, I think he could

659
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: change everything. And then all that stuff that you were

660
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: saying Mark about how beat up he's been, uh, and

661
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: he has been at the idea of Okay, look at

662
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: how he finished this year, look at his his body

663
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: of work last year, and he's had moments throughout his career.

664
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: And maybe they talk themselves into it, but I think

665
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: if he continues to play at a substandard level, I

666
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: think they're gonna act. But here's here's one thing I

667
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: see on the horizon. Though. Let's say they beat Pittsburgh

668
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: and he plays fine, Okay, it's gonna be ugly when

669
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: he is massively outdueled by Joe Burrow and the in

670
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,240
Speaker 1: state Cincinnati Bengals in the final game of the season.

671
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: That's how this thing ends. So do you know it

672
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: doesn't It sounds like your confidence really has been shaken

673
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: quite entirely. I have no confidence in this team, and

674
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: I think it's I think that's the team I'm talking

675
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: about Baker him in the whole thing. I think that

676
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: to Greg's point, where these reports it's so it's so

677
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: countered or a year ago, there's something very dark about

678
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 1: these reports. And uh, you know we I think Brown's

679
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: fans thought you would escape this and you have not.

680
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: I think the Brown's front office, though, was like a

681
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: decisive group, and because of that, I think they would

682
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: get rid of I do want to clarify just what

683
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: the report was. It was when Baker talked to Kurt

684
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: Warner and he mentioned having to overcome a lot of

685
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: internal things. Uh. And then there was a Mary Kay

686
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: Cabot report of a growing disconnect between Stefanski and Mayfield

687
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: about play calling and whether they've talked about it or not.

688
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: Mary Kay said that there's been a disconnect about the

689
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: style of play golf. Interesting. Okay, Greg, you're up next

690
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: and unsolved mystery. And by the way, Greg, I'm just curious.

691
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: I think I've asked you this question before, but you

692
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: were born age thirty two? Standing up? Have you ever

693
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: seen Unsolved Mysteries? No? I never watched. Okay, I'm not

694
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: a judgment. I mean I've seen it many times because

695
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: I was, you know, flipping through the channels, or even

696
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: I was young enough to be like turning the dial.

697
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: I believe, but I don't. I never stuck on it. Alright, cool,

698
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: all right, what's your own solved mystery? Greg rosenvo Well,

699
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: let's stay in the quarterback realm since these are connected.

700
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: My unsolved mysteries is what's Russell Wilson's trade value when

701
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: he gets put on the market, Because I think he's

702
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 1: getting put on the market by his own people, whether

703
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: the Seahawks want to trade him or not. I think

704
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson camp is going to be running this show.

705
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll says he's been having great conversations with Jody Allen,

706
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: their owner, that he doesn't want to change philosophies at all,

707
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: that he has a very tight relationship and and I

708
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 1: just am curious if the last twenty games of Russell

709
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: Wilson's play impacts what his trade value is whatsoever? Because

710
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: he hasn't played that well. Fair question. I think my

711
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: feeling is that a team would be willing to gamble

712
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,720
Speaker 1: the house on the idea that he's still just thirty

713
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: three and maybe things just got a little stale in Seattle,

714
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: and if you give him the rights, supporting cast and

715
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: fresh coaching, he becomes that superstar guy for another five

716
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: to eight years. I think there's a team out there,

717
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: and probably multiple teams that will give up everything to

718
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: get him, and I and I mean give up everything

719
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 1: like what we're hearing for the Shaun Watson, like three

720
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: first round picks or two, you know, two first round

721
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: picks in a second something like that. I think he

722
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: still has that value. But I think it's a fair

723
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 1: point because his body of work is underwhelming. Quite frankly,

724
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: over the past two seasons. I don't think, Um, I

725
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: see where you're coming from, because it's not been the

726
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: same Russell Wilson and this season especially, um, we've become

727
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: used to seeing subpart play from him, which is, you know,

728
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: quizzical compared to everything else. But I mean, I think

729
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: of the last twenty games of Matthew Stafford before he

730
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: came to Los Angeles, where it's like, you're gonna have

731
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: teams and coaches that just look at Russell Wilson and

732
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: say clean slate, don't care what happened with Seattle as

733
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: the organization was slightly crumbling around him and him him

734
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: as well, I think his value will be supreme. Um,

735
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, you your entire team, an organization changes spiritually,

736
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: physically for the next five, six, seven years, and you

737
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: sell tickets, You've got you've got an immediate identity. I

738
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: think it's just too attractive, from ownership to coaches who

739
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: think they can fix everything, to the locker room. I mean,

740
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: it would absolutely alter the way that we view whatever

741
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: team went here, because it's it's right there for us

742
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: uh Baker and two number ones in a three for

743
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, You're you're Andrew Berry Mark Sesler. Well, I

744
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: I think number one you you. The Browns are going

745
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: to be very bold if they want to make this

746
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: decision the same way that we saw with the Rams.

747
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: I would make that move. But here's the thing. I

748
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: don't think Russell Wilson would ever go to Cleveland because

749
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: of who he's married to, because of a wide variety

750
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: of things. I just think that's a long shot. I

751
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: think that if the Jets wanted to turn that into

752
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: some sort of scenario, I think they'd have a better chance.

753
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Um the Giants, especially the Giants have already been named

754
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: as as an obvious candidate, right and think about all

755
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: the other I agree with you guys that ultimately he'll

756
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: go for a ton I to me, I feel a

757
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: little buy or beware because it was the second half

758
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: of last season was ugly. That's a pretty long stretch

759
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: here where you wonder if he's going to age as

760
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: gracefully as some of these other quarterbacks. You know, it

761
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit bit of bent. I mean,

762
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: you still would buy in, but I'd be buy or vieware.

763
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: But it's ultimately a seller's market. Think of the teams

764
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: that are going to be desperate for a Russell Wilson

765
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 1: type player, Broncos, Saints, Texans, Brown's w FT, Carolina Jets.

766
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: It only takes one or two to make like that

767
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 1: market incredibly high. And someone to conduct Greg Greg Let's

768
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: say you were a general manager and a report came

769
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: out that Greg rosen to all the general manager decided

770
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: not to pull you know, not to pull the switch

771
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 1: on a Russell Wilson trade because he was concerned about

772
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's last twenty games. You would be fried on

773
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: that city's sports radio to no end. I hear what

774
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: you're saying, but I don't think that's how anyone else

775
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: is going to think about. I just don't like I

776
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: think some teams well but not not all right. I

777
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: think it's a it's a concern. Greg, you still kind

778
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 1: of like the Patriots. Uh, how about Mac Jones a

779
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: first and a first Jones than Russell Wilson for sure, period.

780
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not too high on Mac. I mean

781
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson right now. To me, I don't want to

782
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: be given up first round, a ton of first round

783
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: picks for Russell Wilson right now. I already have a

784
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: first round pick. You know in that scenario it's Mac Jones. Wait?

785
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: Did I hear that right? Did you just say, wait,

786
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: why did the I just saw the Vikings signed a

787
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: quarterback Kirk is not vaccinated? Interesting, I'll be tracking that. Um.

788
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 1: Did you just say you would have trade Mac Jones

789
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson from Mac Jones? Yeah, I mean I

790
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: would say that about about fifteen guys in the league

791
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: right now, especially guys that tracks what about justin fields

792
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: where Chicago was a target. Wait a second, I don't

793
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: understand how Mac Jones I mean, Matt Jones to me

794
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: would would be moved in a second for Russell Wilson.

795
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: But you're very low on him. I am. I don't know,

796
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: Like Russell Wilson's good, Like he's definitely a mid level

797
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: starting quarterback at this point, but that's all he's been

798
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: for for a year and a half now, And uh,

799
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: I'd rather have like a rookie with a little higher ceiling.

800
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: That's that that young Hey hey, Ricky, where do you you?

801
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: I mean? And I'm not that high on Mac Jones.

802
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I think mac Jones is going to be, like, you know,

803
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: the tenth best quarterback in the league. But I kind

804
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: of rather that rookie contract than giving giving like like

805
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: who has had a better year this year? Mac Jones

806
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. It's it is environment, Like there is

807
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: an environment to Russell. I just so Wilson has like

808
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Tyler Locket, He's got DK Metcalf and like they's solid.

809
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying he couldn't have like a

810
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: great second, you know, career elsewhere. It definitely could happen,

811
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: but it also might not, Like he might just be

812
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: fine somewhere. I have a sneaking suspicion this take is

813
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: going to age very poorly, Greg, But hey, you might

814
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: be right. No, he's gonna be dancing on TikTok with

815
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: Sierra in the next couple of years. First for an income. Oh,

816
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: he is such a future dancing with the Stars guy.

817
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: Maybe he's already done it. I don't know. All right,

818
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we'll go one more time

819
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: around with someones mysteries. Welcome back, Mark one more. Alright,

820
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my list here. Will men's fashion ever improved?

821
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: Not that one? Let's go here mystery? Oh, I think

822
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: it's Absurdain, go ahead, We've got some work to do

823
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: on that front. Um. Does Lamar Jackson have a great

824
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: game left in him in this season? And does it

825
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: even matter? Mm hmm. I'm trying to remember the great

826
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: game he's had this year. First of all, I mean

827
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: it's it happened a long time ago. It's like week

828
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: five or so, week seven, the Minnesota second half that

829
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: was probably Week seven. I mean, that's it's a long

830
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: time ago. I'm gonna say it matters for sure, um,

831
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: because I think they'd be dangerous if they could somehow

832
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: win these games. And they are playing the rams of

833
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: matters for them too. I want to believe it, So

834
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say say yes there. Their offense hasn't been

835
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: the problem since Lamar left, Like their offense was fine

836
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati. If he can get back in there, good weapons,

837
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to totally give up on them yet

838
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: because of that one week. This is a big This

839
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: is a big couple of weeks here for the Lamar

840
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: heads out there. The Lamar Army is strong. Uh. There

841
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: has always been a fierce level of defense for Jackson

842
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 1: whenever the team struggles. Uh, it's it's very rarely put

843
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: on his shoulders. And yet I think we've reached the

844
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: stage now where even the Lamar Army needs to hang

845
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: some of the ravens downfall on the quarterback if they

846
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: if they continue this path. And I understand again this

847
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: is a strange season, uh, and they've been absolutely gutted

848
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: by injuries. But wouldn't you doesn't it is it asking

849
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: too much for Lamar if he gets back from this

850
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: ankle injury to put together two great games to close

851
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: the season and be the superstar that they need him

852
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: to be and perhaps carry them to the a f

853
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: C North title. Um, I don't think so. If he's

854
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: as good as everyone says and he's got an m

855
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: v P Trophy, he's like Kyler Murray, like Mike Baker Mayfield,

856
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: like these guys, but Baker's obviously in a different category.

857
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 1: What I mean is these guys that are the lynch

858
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: pins of the franchise. You need them to do what

859
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: Josh Allen did on on Sunday in Foxborough and put

860
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: a team on your back. Can he do it? It's

861
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: a big test. I see why a lot of stuff

862
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: slips off Jackson's back in terms of critique because he'll

863
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: make the same mistakes that a that a Baker someone

864
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: else will make. But Baker doesn't have that special component

865
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: to his game that even if we haven't seen a

866
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: lot of that from Lamar Jackson, with the way they've

867
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: been defended, you know it's there. You know he can

868
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,359
Speaker 1: do it, and so I think Greg's optimism. You're kind

869
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: of just rooting for it to happen. That's where I

870
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: think Jackson supporters and loyalists are kind of stuck right

871
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: now because it's not inevitable where it felt inevitable with

872
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: him a year ago or two. Well, I thought inevitable

873
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: eight weeks ago. He was on a lot of mid

874
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: season m v P rankings as maybe the favorite. So

875
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: he's had a bizarre season where he played as well

876
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: or better than he's ever played, uh in a different style,

877
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: and then it was a disaster. He played so poorly

878
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: after that and then got hurt. So it's been a

879
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: very like a very strange season. The thing is he

880
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: could play really well, and their defense is twenty nine

881
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: in the you away, so he's gonna need he's gonna

882
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: need them to play better. Like Josh Johnson played great

883
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: last week. Josh Johnson has not only been better than

884
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: all these emergency quarterbacks that have been called upon, but

885
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: better than most backup quarterbacks. Like you scored touchdowns in

886
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: three of his seven drives before it was like garbage

887
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: time and like, and that defense has totally fallen apart.

888
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: They didn't get some COVID guys, But you know you're

889
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: gonna win a shootout with the Rams, that's what's gonna

890
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: have to have. Well, Yeah, it's I'm not saying I'm

891
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: not saying it's impossible. It just doesn't I think he

892
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: was gonna miss a week and he's missed three. They

893
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: clearly us here. But I think that it's unfair to

894
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: say that it's on Lamar to get the Ravens to

895
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I think too much has happened to

896
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 1: Baltimore to see them as a credible super Bowl contender.

897
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: I guess all I'm really saying is from an individual standpoint, UH,

898
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: do something special these last two weeks. I don't know.

899
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: The ankle things a real thing, So it might be

900
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: like what we're seeing with Kyla not Kyler Murray, with

901
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. The last couple weeks. He came back from

902
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: an ankle injury and hasn't run the football like does

903
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: Lamar lose that element of his game even when he returns.

904
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: This might just be a broken Baltimore season. But I

905
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,479
Speaker 1: would like to see Lamar finish on a high note, because, yeah,

906
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: he even this year he was playing at that elite

907
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: level and that all just kind of slipped away in

908
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: the second half. Alright, I'm gonna move away from quarterback talk.

909
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: I did have another I had a couple of quarterback ones,

910
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: but we've done a lot of quarterback ones. So let

911
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: me just let's head to the broadcast booth. M I

912
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: think even the greatest, the biggest of the Romo heads

913
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: out there, and I think Greg you are you were

914
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: right up the top of that list. We'll say that

915
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: Tony's maybe taking a step back since he signed a

916
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: big contract, maybe not as invested, maybe not doing the

917
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: work at the same level. Still a nice, a really

918
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: good presence. You feel like you're watching a big game

919
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: when Tony's there with nance, but maybe he's not that

920
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: he's not like hitting home runs every Sunday like he

921
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: used to. Is this the Is this the playoffs where

922
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: Romo going through the motions gets surpassed, but in the

923
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: by the people that track these things? By Greg Ols,

924
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:25,240
Speaker 1: with Kevin Burkhart, the new darling of social media every Sunday,

925
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: the football Gagnane, it's all fired up about Greg Olson.

926
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: Is that going to be a story that Andrew Marshant

927
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: to The New York Post will be writing about come

928
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: late January? Don't we think that it's It's happened a

929
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: little bit to some degree, I mean, not officially but

930
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: the Olsen love is um, the outpouring is uh. Well,

931
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: he's the new cover of Team Beat, like uh for football,

932
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: the Twitter verse like everybody loves all. He's got these

933
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: two Island Saturday primetime games, which I on, you know, instructive,

934
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: not only because everyone realized how great Grey Olson is,

935
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: but I believe Troy Aikman's in a contract situation right now.

936
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: You think they put that little Olson on the Saturday

937
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: nights big audiences, you better come to the bargaining table, Troy,

938
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: or else we'll see at Amazon. I have no idea

939
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: what's happening. I think with Romo one thing, you're you're

940
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: another year removed from having been inside team walls, inside

941
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: a team, and you have to start to attack a

942
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,439
Speaker 1: little bit differently. Um, maybe it's just uh. I thought

943
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,399
Speaker 1: that the game he was on, the Chief Steelers game

944
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: was a tough drawl because it was over within like

945
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: twelve minutes, and you're going to like be and c material.

946
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: But that was by far I thought his least impressive

947
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: well because I don't think he has a lot of

948
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: least impressive ones, but I mean, if you go listen

949
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: to that, he just seemed a little detached to me

950
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: and out of it. I'm not trying to critique Hi

951
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: because I think he's awesome. He's clearly really really good.

952
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: Like that was a game pass game for me, so

953
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't get the Romo experience. But I

954
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: am with you, Mark, I've seen games this year that

955
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: weren't They've had some dogs in general, and more than

956
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: any announcer, he seems to totally lose lose investment if

957
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: the game is not close, like he was like a child.

958
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: He has like a child, where like he's so into

959
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: it if it's closed, but what it's not. It's like

960
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: he seems to lose. Can't you can't you imagine Jim

961
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: Nance during a commercial break when Romo's interest in the

962
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: game is waning, just pulling the stern Dad routine and

963
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, Tony, let's go, Tony, let's go. I

964
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: feel like that feed where you can watch talking to

965
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: each other and they seem to jenuine we like, like

966
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: jenuinely love each other. Man, they really love each other,

967
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: I think. But I think I feel like Nance is

968
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 1: still trying to impress Romo and be like the cool kid.

969
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Like he makes a little sarcastic jokes that Romo makes,

970
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: so I don't know if he's he's coming too tough

971
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: on last time we had a Marshaw on the show,

972
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: he had like a dicey internet connection, which was disappointing.

973
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: But now he's got his own podcast. He does a

974
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: media podcast, so you know he's got the dye and

975
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,800
Speaker 1: you know he's got the rock solid, plugged in internet

976
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: set up. So Ricky, we want to put that put

977
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: a pin in this uh, and we're gonna want to

978
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: have some good old fashioned NFL media play by play

979
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: booth talk when things quiet down in the NFL season,

980
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: Little Little they should get a wild card game and

981
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: a divisional round. I don't know if they get a

982
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: division but they should at least get a wild card game.

983
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 1: The shout out to Andrew mars Shawn's brother, regular listener

984
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: to the show, Marshawn Family Affair. All Right, I'm I'm

985
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: rambling now, I'm Tony. I'm Tony Romo in the second

986
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: quarter of a Steelers game in December, um one more.

987
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: He was so disappointed my final unsolved mystery the show.

988
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: He's never seen. This is what's going on in Jacksonville,

989
00:52:51,480 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 1: Oh authorities have reported that despite being a big part

990
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: of an organization that has won three games combined over

991
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: the last two years, that's one less than Joe Judge one.

992
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: This year, ouch, Trent Balky was given the Keith to

993
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: the Kingdom. Trent Balky, who seems to be great at

994
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: one thing, managing up people, surviving changes. Why is Trent

995
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: Balky running a coaching search in the year that is

996
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: my unself mystery that that's a great one. And and

997
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,280
Speaker 1: tying together the theme of the show and another prime

998
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: time program from the late eighties early nineties. Um, I'd

999
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: rather have Balky Bartakamus from Perfect Strangers running my team

1000
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: than Trent Balky, because yeah, I'm with you, but I

1001
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: don't know if the Russian post super plugged into the task, right,

1002
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, Like, just for some background,

1003
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: Trent Backy was a forty Niners guy back in the day,

1004
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: kind of pushed out a few forty Niners coaches too,

1005
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: and always managed to survive. That wasn't you know? Him

1006
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: and Jim Harbaugh eventually we're at odds. Uh survived that. Uh.

1007
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: And here in Jacksonville, where he was a key figure

1008
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: in convincing urban Meyer to promote him and supposedly was

1009
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: integral in the hiring of this offensive line coach. By

1010
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: the way that urban Meyer. Uh, eventually you know, took

1011
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: all the flak four has convinced owner shot Con that

1012
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: he is the man to run this team and he

1013
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: has more power than ever. And the more we learned

1014
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: about urban Meyer, it almost feels like urban Meyer was

1015
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: so out to lunch that much of this team was

1016
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: run by Trent Balki the whole time. And Uh, I

1017
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: hate the setup where coaches are inheriting the GM or

1018
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: the GM is inheriting the coach. It's a big pet

1019
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: peeve of mine. I feel like that's the number one

1020
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: ownership test. If you fail that test, yeah you're bad.

1021
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,280
Speaker 1: I know there's exceptions. Siciliano brought it up the less

1022
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: need Sean mcbaywan. I don't need to hear the exceptions.

1023
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: There's a million other times they need to be a line.

1024
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: You need to hire them together. I don't. I don't

1025
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: like this set up, and I don't like it when

1026
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: everyone around that team doesn't like it either. So you're

1027
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 1: looking at you're looking at two people that have followed

1028
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: teams that have done that that for a thousand years.

1029
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: I also think that you know, if you're Trent BALKI,

1030
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: are there certain candidates out there who feel a certain

1031
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: way about him saying I don't want that job because

1032
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: I want this other job. If you're up for a couple,

1033
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: for instance, like the Jacksonville has attractive Trevor Lawrence makes

1034
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: it attractive in theory, but you don't like the GM,

1035
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: you don't go there. It's should and the ownership situation.

1036
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: I think Sean kan has been a really good owner

1037
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,479
Speaker 1: in terms of being a consistent, good businessman, but he's

1038
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: at the point now where he shouldn't be falling for

1039
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: this dog and pony show. See if you had Balky

1040
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: Bartkamas making the decision, you say, oh, should you mismatch

1041
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: coach and GM, he'd go, well, of course not Larry

1042
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 1: get out of the city. He not to have like

1043
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: a nice laugh track attached to like whenever he does

1044
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,280
Speaker 1: a press comment. I watched I watched some Perfect Strangers

1045
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: back in the day. I even can remember that guy's name,

1046
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: Bronson Pinchote very good like that quickly What was the

1047
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: fictional country of fictional area that he was from? Mark Sessler,

1048
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: uh Rosa Slavia Posh the Jaguars. By the way, I've

1049
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: asked permission to interview Byron Leftwich, Todd Bowles, Dan Quinn,

1050
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, Kellen Moore, and Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.

1051
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: Just a little bit of new Did they hired Doug Peterson?

1052
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: Did they get Frank right? Also they get that statue

1053
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: of it's such an important hire. They have this generational

1054
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 1: quarterback who has been put through hell. You can't mess

1055
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: it up? And God do you trust them? I mean,

1056
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: I like, you know what I think they're going. I

1057
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,760
Speaker 1: think that they're heading towards like a Gym Caldwell Higher

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Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, you had a super chaotic

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Speaker 1: significant other, girlfriend, boyfriend, and your next person is someone

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Speaker 1: that is different, and like they're gonna go super boring

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Speaker 1: because they had a high drama, high problematic coach that

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Speaker 1: nearly drugged the organization into the sea right. One of

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Speaker 1: the reasons I hate the setup and I know will

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Speaker 1: end it tune is gms like Balky to me are

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Speaker 1: gonna one of their primary concerns is hiring a coach

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Speaker 1: that he's going to have power over and control over,

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Speaker 1: and that's like not what you want to be the

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Speaker 1: priority and hiring your coach. That's true, that's fair. Alright.

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Speaker 1: That ends another episode of Unsolved Mysteries on the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. You will hear from us next on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: We have no Thursday night football, so we have a

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Speaker 1: full slated games. We have Saturday games this week, as

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Speaker 1: I understand, or at least one game. No, no, it's

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Speaker 1: also so I think it was because of the bowls.

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Speaker 1: Is in the college football playoffs, they took this Saturday off.

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Speaker 1: We are running free waun till Sunday. Baby. Is there

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Speaker 1: a Monday night game? There is a Monday night Cleveland Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's the last Monday night game. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: Arrow in the head, please a full Sunday slate. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna really need our buddy Nick Shook for the flagship

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Speaker 1: show and he will be there for us. UM. All right,

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Speaker 1: thank you everybody for listening. What will we hear when's

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve? That's Friday, okay, so it won't be

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Speaker 1: um by the time you hear from us next, So

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Speaker 1: forget that. I was gonna say Happy New Year, but

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Speaker 1: it's not time, so you don't get it yet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's it. Dan has a signing off for

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm. Uh the old boss Ricky Hollywood until Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Heed the call se